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The New Film Criticism: NonDē's Partner in Climb

"The Treatment"'s Charlotte Simmons TakesOver HFF to examine how changing the way we make films necessitates a change in the way we talk about them.

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Sep 25, 2025
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While I was taking in the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, I allowed myself a smattering of media shopping between The Wizard of the Kremlin and The Napa Boys. This led me to a bookstore — the name of which escapes me — that would prove to house my two latest acquisitions. The first was a special edition DVD of The Manchuria…

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Tomatometer-approved film critic, script consultant, former cynic, kombucha enthusiast, naturalized citizen of the no flex zone, and the real Forrest Gump, probably.
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